A colleague used to walk around all day, telling himself, "Everything is going to be OK." His psychiatrist had taught him that as a coping skill. I think of us trying to talk ourselves into thankfulness and particularly joyfulness when it might not be there for us to speak into existence.
Have we really believed that His offering of Himself on the cross and subsequent resurrection is enough to completely remove all of our sin and it's guilt? Have we abandoned the idea that we need to make a self generated effort to reform our bad selves?
Without belief and self-abandonment, we are trying to call something into existence that is not really there.
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